You are Never Alone

More of these videos that I’ve been exploring.

Virtual Social Worlds and the Future of Learning –9:43
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2jY4UkPbAc
Talks about 7 Sensibilities

• The Sense of Self
• The Death of Distance
• The Power of Presence
• The Sense of Space
• The Capability to Co-Create
• The Pervasiveness of Practice
• The Enrichment of Experience

Edusim 3D in your class: 3:16
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVFsxev-2sk
Mashing up interactive whiteboards and virtual worlds (Edusim3d), an open source virtual world designed for use with classroom interactive whiteboards.

Videos about Second Life

Education in Second Life 2:57
– interesting questions about face2face vs virtual world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R1SrZua5ww

Science Learning Opportunities in Second Life 3:24
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfsSGBraUhc
This is an interesting one too with clear educational animations

Nurse education in Second Life 3:29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xidko60S2Uk
This one does make you wonder why you would bother.

Videos about Wonderland

Wonderland Sun Project: Introduction to concept. 48 seconds
Wonderland is a virtual world tool kit that allows people to create and share their own memories.
Could be used as a project management work space to work with a virtual team across several projects.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0kM0sDYmYc

MPK20 Sun’s Virtual Workspace 4:58
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K_yLMMHTmE
Sun Microsystem’s virtual team room and demo floor. They created this space instead of building a new bricks and mortar building. Technical background plus practical demonstration of how the team is using the virtual space. They use it for audio and video conferencing with people in both the virtual space and the “real” physical space. Extensible Open Source environment.

Project Wonderland DEMO Walkthrough 3:32
German produced for CeBIT 2007 about MPK20.  Wonderland can be run on a variety of platforms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plIW4KMIOq4

Metaverse: Project Wonderland. 3:56
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyryS_W4ZnU
metaverse technology. Deron Johnson talking about project Wonderland. An interview with a lot of background noise. Seems to have been made at a convention or trade show.

Project Wonderland: Toolkit for Building 3D Virtual Worlds
Project Wonderland is a 100% Java and open source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds. Within those worlds, users can communicate with high-fidelity, immersive audio, share live desktop applications and documents and conduct real business. Wonderland is completely extensible; developers and graphic artists can extend its functionality to create entire new worlds and new features in existing worlds.
There is a series of videos here:
https://lg3d.dev.java.net/WonderlandTechOv.html
You can download the videos to run locally without an internet connection